Hack At Your Own Peril – Pakistan Passes Law to Criminalize Cyber Terrorism With Death Penalty
Pakistan President, Asif Ali Zardari signed The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance making it a law to counter internet crimes. The Ordinance shall have retrospective effect from 29th Septamber, 2008.
Audie & the Wolf film The Ordinance defines internet crime done to cause death shall be punishable with capital punishment.
The ordinance applies to “any person, group or organization who, with terroristic intent utilizes, accesses or causes to be accessed a computer or computer network or electronic system or electronic device or by any available means, and thereby knowingly engages in or attempts to engage in a terroristic act.”
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It also states that cyber terrorism shall be considered
(a) altering by addition, deletion, or change or attempting to alter information that may result in the imminent injury, sickness, or death to any segment of the population;
(b) transmission or attempted transmission of a harmful program with the purpose of substantially disrupting or disabling any computer network operated by the Government or any public entity;
(c) aiding the commission of or attempting to aid the commission of an act of violence against the sovereignty of Pakistan, whether or not the commission of such act of violence is actually completed; or
(d) stealing or copying, or attempting to steal or copy, or secure classified information or data necessary to manufacture any form of chemical, biological or nuclear weapon, or any other weapon of mass destruction.
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